

As migrant crisis worsened, Chicago City Council immigration committee failed to act
The Council’s immigration committee hadn’t met for more than a year as the city struggled to find shelter and resources for migrants.
New reporting from Block Club Chicago shows that the Council’s Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights — the body responsible for looking out for migrants — failed to act after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing thousands of asylum seekers to Chicago from the U.S.-Mexico border.
Reset talks with the reporter who broke the story.
GUEST: Mick Dumke, editor and reporter for Block Club Chicago
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As migrant crisis worsened, Chicago City Council immigration committee failed to act
The Council’s immigration committee hadn’t met for more than a year as the city struggled to find shelter and resources for migrants.
New reporting from Block Club Chicago shows that the Council’s Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights — the body responsible for looking out for migrants — failed to act after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing thousands of asylum seekers to Chicago from the U.S.-Mexico border.
Reset talks with the reporter who broke the story.
GUEST: Mick Dumke, editor and reporter for Block Club Chicago